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Subject: Re: Distributed X?
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Date: 13 Oct 89 03:14:30 GMT
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hpk@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (howard.p.katseff) writes:

>I recently sent out a request for information about how to speed up the
>X window system by distributing the X server over a multiprocessor
>network.

>I got one useful reply: a pointer to a Masters thesis by Jeff Kelley
>(uunet!watmath!watcgl!jvkelley).

>Abstract

>This thesis discusses the design and implementation of a window system
>for a tightly coupled multiprocessor workstation...Bottlenecks
>inherent in the design of the X Window System limit the use of
>parallelism.

You asked for a distributed X.  You cite discussion of a parallel X.
Which do you want?

-- Jon
-- 
Jonathan Krueger    jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil   uunet!dgis!jkrueger
Isn't it interesting that the first thing you do with your
color bitmapped window system on a network is emulate an ASR33?